Sentence examples for blanket privilege from inspiring English sources

A blanket privilege allowing agents to resist giving testimony in criminal inquiries would undercut their law enforcement mission, and the rule of law itself.

SB 1062 reaches well beyond opposition to same-sex marriage by extending a blanket privilege on people with sincerely held beliefs: if it would violate your conscience to do business with pretty much anyone, you are under no obligation to consort with them.

A vote for him isn't so much a vote for something "new" as a return to a more bigoted and regressive past, an allegedly idyllic America that wrapped white Americans in a comforting blanket of privilege and left black Americans out in the cold.

On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union won an important victory for transparency when a federal district judge in New York City, Alvin Hellerstein, rejected the government's blanket claim of privilege for all the photos.

The lawyer, W. Neil Eggleston, asked the High Court to reverse the July 27 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that a blanket attorney-client privilege could not prevent some Government lawyers from being called to give evidence.

The judge had previously ruled that individual defendants could also not invoke a blanket Fifth Amendment privilege for all discovery requests, but instead would have to do so for each request.

It is hard to imagine that a court will sustain a claim of the breadth made by the president and the attorney general in this case, but it appears that it will have to decide that question unless the executive branch recognizes the weakness of the blanket claim of privilege.

A1 A Vermont judge ruled that Dr. Dean could not use a blanket assertion of executive privilege to shield from public view papers he assembled over 11 years as governor.

A Vermont judge ruled yesterday that Howard Dean could not use a blanket assertion of "executive privilege" to shield from public view more than half of the papers he assembled over 11 years as governor.

In the appeal, to be heard Monday by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the civil liberties union argues that the government has engaged in an inappropriate blanket use of the privilege and that the case should be allowed to proceed.

Since the indictments contained numerous counts covering many questions asked and the evidence showed varying reasons for not answering, the conclusion that privilege was claimed blankets all questions.